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Transcatheter closure of a ventricular septal defect resulting from knife stabbing using the Amplatzer muscular VSD occluder
Author(s) -
Berry Colin,
Hillis W. Stewart,
Knight W. Brodie
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.20718
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricle , tamponade , closure (psychology) , cardiology , cardiac tamponade , surgery , heart septal defect , market economy , economics
We report for the first time the transcatheter closure of a traumatic ventricular septal defect (VSD) with the Amplatzer muscular VSD occluder in a 34‐year‐old man who had been stabbed through the heart. After his initial life‐saving surgery to relieve tamponade, control bleeding, and repair the lacerated right ventricle, the risks and difficulties of subsequent open heart surgery were felt to favor transcatheter closure. We review other reports of transcatheter closure of traumatic VSD. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss., Inc.